Is the border still 'secure,' Secretary Mayorkas?

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    52% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -46% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : He said it in January of this year (157,000 crossings), May of last year (241,000 crossings), and March 2021 (his third month on the job, when border crossings nearly doubled to 173,000).
38% : Mayorkas announced that he is using his authority to waive 26 federal laws, including the Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act, in order to address the "acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers" on the border.
32% : The August number is not the largest number of border crossings during the Biden administration; that would be last December, when more than 250,000 people crossed the border illegally.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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